Anyone into trainers/sneakers?
Discussion
Rawwr said:
ashleyman said:
I reckon you’d have to invest about as much as a retail pair on the resell market.
Would you rather pay £700 for a pair from resellers or pay £700 for a mildly increased change of getting a pair at retail?
Gameface said:
So is LBC Deadstock a legit site?
Yep. I assume their stock is bot-sourced, and I've never actually used the site, but as far as I can tell it's legit. They've also sold dead stock NB, Asics, Diadora etc, both through their site and through eBay.Just thought it might help some of you out who are after the OW's.
Rawwr said:
ashleyman said:
I reckon you’d have to invest about as much as a retail pair on the resell market.
Would you rather pay £700 for a pair from resellers or pay £700 for a mildly increased change of getting a pair at retail?Rawwr said:
ashleyman said:
Probably the increased chance. Told you I wasn’t going to be popular for saying it.
You'd pay £700 (the cost of actually getting a pair) for an increase of 0.01% to 0.5%?I'm currently entering SNEAKRS draws with maybe 3 or 4 chances, with a bot you're looking at 100+ entries which is more chance. Put that over multiple drops/entries and the cost doesn't sound so bad.
What's your source to say your potential increase will only be 0.01% to 0.5% or are you guessing?
ashleyman said:
What's your source to say your potential increase will only be 0.01% to 0.5% or are you guessing?
By understanding all of the mechanisms in use which allow bots to do what they do. I do this for a living. I'm very good at what I do. There are too many people using too many bots using too many hosts using too many proxies for newcomers to make an impact. If you really want to go for it then go for it. I can't tell you what to spend your money on, I can only tell you that your chances are not going to increase in the way you seem to think they are and that the use of bots to get a win is so, so far from guaranteed that you're going to need to be really ok with losing that investment if you want to try it.
Air Jordan 33 release day today!
I don't really need to buy a pair, I won't wear them that much, I don't play basketball anymore, they are bloody expensive...but I just want them!
May wait for a different colour way though.
https://www.nike.com/gb/t/air-jordan-xxxiii-basket...
I don't really need to buy a pair, I won't wear them that much, I don't play basketball anymore, they are bloody expensive...but I just want them!
May wait for a different colour way though.
https://www.nike.com/gb/t/air-jordan-xxxiii-basket...
joshcowin said:
Does the fact you keep loosing make you want the product/next drop more?
My answer to that is no. I don’t go for everything that drops. I just go for the stuff I like and would definitely wear. For example, the Off White Blazers - I didn’t enter as I wouldn’t wear them.
Rawwr said:
Nothing, technologically speaking.
The only thing they could do would be a process change, maybe something similar to the Offspring cycling registers.
Could they not text out a pin to enter? Something like that?The only thing they could do would be a process change, maybe something similar to the Offspring cycling registers.
Basically something requiring a human input at the checkout stage, something very quick. Even issue the same pin for all users say 10 minutes before the drop that needs to be entered, could the bots get around that?
king age for Nike to send a verification code to you if you want to sign into the sneakers app with more than one profile. joshcowin said:
Could they not text out a pin to enter? Something like that?
Basically something requiring a human input at the checkout stage, something very quick. Even issue the same pin for all users say 10 minutes before the drop that needs to be entered, could the bots get around that?
PIN wouldn't work as that could just be sent along in the same request. Basically something requiring a human input at the checkout stage, something very quick. Even issue the same pin for all users say 10 minutes before the drop that needs to be entered, could the bots get around that?
A complex Captcha could work but that brings other issues.
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